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no, we should use the heart beating as a definition. why? because then I can say I'm undead and have died twice. that's very cool ๐ pls don't take that away from me ๐ฅบ :(
As an old and now retired medic. My personal definition of dead was if you made into the back of my amp-a-lamps or not. If you did you weren't dead-- you were merely having a bit of a bad day. I might have needed to do your breathing for you and I might have needed to make your heart pump blood. But until some doctor somewhere decided you weren't worth his time and effort, you were still alive. Because I don't haul dead people.
So, by my definition as a trained and professional medical person, you where never dead-dead. Just someone have a bad day among many others having a bad day at that time.
But if you've died, then were undead, and then died again, you'd be un-undead right? So alive? It's basic double jeopardy.
~~You put the double 'un' but forgot the double 'dead'.~~
Oh, I didn't realise you were actually catching the thing mid statement.
Still:
That depends entirely on whether the un- prefix only negates the other un- prefix, or the entire adjective.
The thing is that 'un' is different from stuff like 'not', 'non' and the likes, because it is not just denying the referred word but saying that the effect of the referred word was reverted somehow.
You're thinking a little too hard about a silly joke
Your silly joke was on Programmer Humour. You might find geeks and nerds here.
Overthinking is our ikigai.
Now get out of line and continue with further analysis of the 'un'
And how is lichdom treating you? Have you raised an army of skeleton warriors yet?